The Bingham Canyon Mine, more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among locals, is an openpit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, in the Oquirrh Mountains. The mine is the largest manmade excavation in the world and is considered...

The Mining industry of Cyprus is synonymous with copper extraction which began around ... Possibly the world's oldest operational mine, the Skouriotissa copper mine, was founded ... At the end of the conflict, the ceasefire demarcation line divided the holdings of the largest mining firm in the country, Cyprus Mines, causing...